Mass user creation

[jeremyh]

I'm working on adding close to 100 users to my Zabbix 2.0.5 instance and am hoping there is a way to create these users in a more automated way.

We have successfully configured Zabbix to auth via LDAP to a Windows AD system. Unless I'm missing something, this authentication requires that users still be created locally.

I've looked at the API, user.create in the documentation but I'm at a loss of how to use it.

Anyone have any insights, how-to's or advice?

Thanks in advance,
Jeremy H.

[BDiE8VNy]

Do you have already taken a look at?:

• Getting started with Zabbix API (Zabbix Documentation)
• Getting started with Zabbix API (Zabbix WebBlog)
• Monitoring Zabbix API (uses cURL instead of Pearl)

[dirckcopeland]

Create Users in Mass

Here are some examples to use that are more specific to adding users using the API. Here is a useful perl example that looks simple but took a while even after looking at the above links.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;
use JSON::RPC::Client;
use Data::Dumper;

# Authenticate yourself
my $client = new JSON::RPC::Client;
my $url = 'http://your-zabbix-server-here.com/zabbix/api_jsonrpc.php';

my $authID;
my $response;

# Get list of all hosts using authID

my $json = {
jsonrpc=> '2.0',
method => 'user.create',
params => 
{
alias => 'john.doe',
name => 'John',
surname => 'Doe',
passwd => 'changeme',
usrgrps =>
{
usrgrpid => 25
}
},
id => 1,
auth => "abc23283babcbabdbfbeb3238f01e92b"
};

$response = $client->call($url, $json);
print Dumper($response);
printf "%s\n",$response;

So the next question I had is how do you find the usrgrpid number associated with the group you want add this users to. Heres the code to list out the User Groups and associated ID's:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;
use JSON::RPC::Client;
use Data::Dumper;

# Authenticate yourself
my $client = new JSON::RPC::Client;
my $url = 'http://your-zabbix-server.com/zabbix/api_jsonrpc.php';

my $authID;
my $response;

my $json = {
jsonrpc=> '2.0',
method => 'usergroup.get',
params =>
{
output => 'extend'
},
id => 2,
auth => "abc23283babcbabdbfbeb3238f01e92b",
};
$response = $client->call($url, $json);

# Check if response was successful
die "host.get failed\n" unless $response->content->{result};

print "List of Groups\n-----------------------------\n";
foreach my $usergroup (@{$response->content->{result}}) {
print "Group ID: ".$usergroup->{usrgrpid}." Name: ".$usergroup->{name}."\n";
}

[BDiE8VNy]

Not sure why people can't post something useful instead of just pointing to the documentation. [...]
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Possibly to help people how to find a way themselves